I love this thread! I have made a hobby of turning people trash into profits for the past several summers. The highlight of my year is volunteering at one of the local clean up days in an uppity community near me. Since I started going 3 or 4 years ago I have cleared more than $2500 in "junk" that I turned around and sold on Craigslist. The best item was a 1 year old fully galvanized boat trailer that I sold the next day for $700! I don't have enough time or space to type it all up (I do keep spreadsheets showing every transaction!) but the best score yet was a Rainbow playset for my kids - new value is more than $6000 - FREE! I have built a shed and all the shelves in my garage out of materials salvaged from construction site dumpsters and I have sold off more truck toppers, lawnmowers, bikes, etc. than I care to think about. I have been mowing my lawn with a lawnmower than someone on my block had in the garage for the past 3 or 4 years - and several of my friends are mowing their lawns with my free lawnmowers too! I have gotten free or extremely cheap bikes for everyone I know from the trash, garage sales and thrift stores and everyone loves it. The funny part is that my friends and family make fun of me in one breath and in the next they want me to find them stuff! It is all good fun and I hate to see useful stuff get thrown in the garbage. My 3/4 ton Dodge pickup even runs on FREE waste vegetable oil I get from a local restaurant! Anyway - don't worry about what anyone else thinks. Good times.